Quotes About Expression

Sexuality is one of the most important ways in which we identify, establish, and maintain our boundaries.

I was the first to bring the Muse into my country.

I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down.

The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.

I have never known a musician who regretted being one. Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down.

Vain trifles as they seem, clothes change our view of the world and the world's view of us.

I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write.

The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.

So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say.

For it would seem - her case proved it - that we write, not with the fingers, but with the whole person. The nerve which controls the pen winds itself about every fibre of our being, threads the heart, pierces the liver.

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.

When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness—I am nothing.

Mrs Dalloway is always giving parties to cover the silence

I detest the masculine point of view. I am bored by his heroism, virtue, and honour. I think the best these men can do is not talk about themselves anymore.

How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn't pull the trigger?

And the poem, I think, is only your voice speaking.

Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?

who shall measure the heat and violence of a poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?

Peter would think her sentimental. So she was. For she had come to feel that it was the only thing worth saying – what one felt. Cleverness was silly. One must say simply what one felt.

For masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.

No, she thought, one could say nothing to nobody. The urgency of the moment always missed its mark. Words fluttered sideways and struck the object inches too low.

The most extraordinary thing about writing is that when you've struck the right vein, tiredness goes. It must be an effort, thinking wrong.

Women have sat indoors all these millions of years, so that by this time the very walls are permeated by their creative force, which has, indeed, so overcharged the capacity of bricks and mortar that it must needs harness itself to pens and brushes and business and politics.

I do not want to be admired. I want to give, to be given, and solitude in which to unfold my possessions.